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I am collecting Indian Heritage and culture related vintage postcards, paintings, prints etc. and exhibited them at several locations across India in various events and also sharing them with school and college children by giving presentations to them on Indian Heritage and Culture with my collections and also documenting puppetry etc. intangible performances.

Wednesday 31 October 2018

Sunday 28 October 2018

Handicrafts in my collection

These are combination of several crafts in my collection. The crafts photographs sharing here which are in my collection are terracotta lanterns, sholapith crafts, kondapalli toys, bobbili veena, kavad portable shrine, jute crafts etc. displayed in our glass cup board.





Wednesday 15 August 2018

Freedom Fighters images printed vintage Playing Card and vintage Hair Oil Label in my collection.

These are Freedom Fighters images printed  vintage Playing Card and vintage Hair Oil Label in my collection. Sharing them today now on the occasion of our Independence Day.





Bharat Mata image printed vintage labels in my collection

These are "Bharat Mata" image printed three different vintage labels and one vintage cloth merchant's letterhead in my collection. Sharing them now today on the occasion of our Independence Day.








Women performing puja to our National Flag vintage art postcard in my collection

This is women performing puja by offering flowers and arati to our National Flag vintage art postcard in my collection. Sharing this vintage postcard now today on the occasion of our Independence Day.



Indian Women Freedom Fighters vintage textiles labels and postcards in my collection

These are some Indian Women Freedom Fighters vintage textiles labels and postcards in my collection. Sharing them now today on the occasion of our Independence Day with a respect to all women freedom fighters. Names of the some prominent women freedom fighters labels which are in my collection and i am sharing here are Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Nehru, Ramiben Kamdar and some others.















Thursday 7 June 2018

Kalamkari painting step by step procedure album in my collection

This is Kalamkari paintings step by step procedure of how to draw a kalamkari painting album in my collection.


Only few kalamkari artists draw and prepare this step by step procedure of kalamkari album. 


Now such album is becoming rare because in the present generation no artist is not able to prepare such album because it require lot of time and patience and this prepared by an old artist many years back and now it is very rare because now-a-days these age old kalamkari artists not able to get enough money for their livelihood.


More over in compare with olden days present day we are not able to get such beautiful treasures from artists because day by day many of our age old traditions are becoming in the list of vanishing and endangered heritage because of lack of support getting by artist from society for his livelihood. hence it is our responsibility to respect those traditions and try to document them and give some amount of money to them with respect to the artistetc. From the last 100 years of technological advancement we lost many of our age old traditions and cultures.

These are the various steps in preparing a kalamkari painting as per the album which is in my collection

1.Destrached Cotton Cloth 


2. Treated with myrobalan and milk 


3. Preliminary drawng with Charcoal 


4. Permanent black lines using Iron Solution 


5.Alumn applied wehreevcer red colour is required 



6.Excess alumn removed in flowing water 


7.Cotton boiled in solution of red pigments (Surul bark & Seveeling root) 


8.Bleached cloth 


9.Yellow colour applied using myrobalan flower extract 


10.Blue coor obtained from Indigo crystals 



11.Blue colour is painted over yellows to get green